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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.…
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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing…
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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
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There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high…
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No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
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Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to…
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
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For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet…
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The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the…
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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded…
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one,…
— John Cage
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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards,…
— Chris Chocola
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I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
— Woodrow Wilson
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I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.
— Marilyn Manson
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The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the…
— Frederick Soddy
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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her…
— Mark Twain
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When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be…
— Bayard Rustin
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Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to…
— Eric Hoffer
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Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make…
— Timothy Ball
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As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of…
— Joseph Goebbels
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